Has the Maliki regime noticed yet that Obama is arming the Sunni jihadists in Syria and arming their foes in Iraq? This incoherence should be the lead story on every nightly news program and the lead story in every major news outlet. Instead, of course, they continue to cover for this disastrous Administration.
“US Rushes Hellfires to Iraq, Trying to Rebuild Arsenal,” by Hamish MacDonald, ABC News, June 29, 2014:
The U.S. has rushed 75 Hellfire missiles to the Iraqi government, but that small arsenal will last the regime only about three days as they battle to take back the city of Tikrit.
The government of President Nouri al-Maliki ran out of the missiles shortly after the al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS chased his troops out of northern Iraq by taking Mosul, Tikrit and the border posts with Syria.
This weekend, the government made its first concerted effort to take back territory and is battling ISIS and its Sunni Muslim allies in Tikrit, the one-time hometown of former dictator Saddam Hussein.
The Iraqi army is receiving information used in its offensive from U.S. advisers who have been using intelligence gathered by U.S. drones that have been flying over Iraq.
Other highlights in the murky fog of war that has enveloped Iraq are expectations that it will likely be at least six months before Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, can be recaptured by government forces.
Before moving on Mosul, the government will need to recruit forces from the region and rebuild the 2nd Division of the Iraqi army, which totally collapsed and fled in the face of the ISIS attack.
Three U.S. teams of miltary advisers are now operating in Iraq, some of them north of Baghdad. Three more teams are expected to arrive. President Obama has authorized as many as 300 miltary advisers to return to Iraq.
The advisers, along with the intel from the drones, will help direct the Iraqi offensive and give Obama targets to hit if he decides to become more aggressive in Iraq.
There is some skepticism that two Russian Sukhoi fighter jets that are being prepared by technicians can be made ready in three days as promised.
The introduction of help from Russian now means that three of the U.S.’s rivals — Russia, Iran and Syria — are helping Iraq’s Shia-dominated government.
Iraq needs some help in the air, however. Sixty of its helicopters have been damaged since January and six have been shot down.
Despite the huge swath of territory through northern Syria and northern Iraq that ISIS — the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq — has conquered, the radical Sunni militants are believed to have vulnerabilities….
Islam_Macht_Frei says
“Has the Maliki regime noticed yet that Obama is arming the Sunni jihadists in Syria and arming their foes in Iraq?”
Actually, in the spirit of the late, great Iran-Iraq War (RIP), I have long advocated a policy of keeping both sides armed enough with small arms and intelligence to keep this simmering and prevent either side from attaining a definitive victory. It can be a balancing act for sure, and there would be mis-steps, but as long as these a-holes are busy killing each other, the civilized world is a safer place. MHO.
mortimer says
If they two main Muslim factions make jihad against each other, the jihadists will all be wiped out in a few years.
Shane says
The problem with that is that Muslims always find time to slaughter Christians during their internal wars. The USA and European countries should engage in a massive effort to allow Christians in Muslim countries that are persecuting them to immigrate to the West. I would much rather have some Middle East Christians immigrate to the USA than hordes of Mexicans looking for handouts.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yep. The *only* military intervention by the West that *I* would support, in Iraq and/ or Syria, is this: to get all the remaining Christians outta there. Fast.
Between the Anglophone world plus Latin America and the Pacific, there are surely enough nominally-Christian countries in the world that those poor people – all of whom are literate, and who will be hardworking, grateful, and readily assimilable – can be found places to live.
It’s simple, really.
Mosque and/ or madrasa = expensive security headache.
Assyrian Christian church, school, monastery or nunnery = zero security risk .
James Foard says
Great article Robert. Obama is robbing Muhammad to pay Abdullah. But it must make sense in the dark, stygian hallways of the White House. I’m sure Obama knows what he’s doing. After all, he’s the President you know. He has a plan, and It’ll turn out to be so obvious, why it’ll be as plain as the ear on your face.
jewdog says
I actually am pleased that the Sunnis have advanced. At least now there is less danger of a Shiite super-state comprising Iran and Iraq. Now let them clobber each other.
There are dangers of course: The balance could tip too far in the other direction, ISIS could hatch international terror plots and it’s probably not too cool for the ISIS crazies to control oil exports.
Eventually we may want to protect the oil fields with troops, although I doubt realpolitik will ever take hold in Washington.
John C. Barile says
Let the Kurds take the oil fields, and pipe the oil to Turkish ports.
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/israels-pm-calls-for-supporting-kurdish-independence-30392944
wildjew says
I have had my television tuned to Fox News. I’ve not seen one ‘expert’ say anything other than that Obama goofed by not aiding the opposition in Syria. I am pretty sure Bush adviser, Elliott Abrams took that position. Every conservative analyst supports John McCain’s position.
Moa says
The chaos is all by design. Not by Neocons (as the Cultural Marxist propaganda asserts stridently), but by the utopian Cultural Marxists themselves (that is, modern Democrat party).
This is Zbigniew Brzezinski’s handwork. As President Jimmy Carter’s advisor he created the mujahideen in Afghanistan (six months ***before*** the Soviets invaded, essentially baiting the Soviets), calculating that radical Islamists were better than the Soviet Union. But he created Frankenstein instead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski
He was picked by Obama as his advisor. Again, he thinks that by arming Islamists he can create chaos and grow the New World Order (under Democrat leadership, of course). If enough chaos is created then the people will willingly give up the rights they have left, and they will willingly empower the State and fund its security apparatus – all in the name of “fighting Islamism”.
Of course, billionaire Democrat backer George Soros also gets to make enormous profits from the chaos. Just as he did with the chaos under the Nazis in his native Hungary, and as he did in England, and the crisis he engineered with the Asian financial crises over a decade ago, and is now preparing for the ultimate prize – to break America’s economy, crash the value of everything and sweep in to profit massively.
Please Google Brzezinski, what has has done, and what he is now doing, and George Soros too.
You are not even pawns to these amoral men, you are the chessboard to be trodden over.
wildjew says
President Bush said in a nationally televised address less than 12 hours after what is being called the worst act of terrorism in America’s history. “We will make no distinction between those who committed these acts and those who harbor them.”
Bush first publicly called for a Palestinian (terror) state in October 2001… Challenged by reporters to explain the difference between the comments by Bush and Clinton, Hughes said: “President George W. Bush is the first president to make it a matter of United States policy that we support two states living side by side in peace and freedom” — an important nuance that was left out of her repeated statements on her Middle East tour.
Shibley Telhami, a Middle East expert at the University of Maryland, agrees that Bush formally made creating a Palestinian state the goal of U.S. policy, largely to appeal to the Muslim world at a time when the United States had attacked Afghanistan.
(By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
gerard says
Why doesn’t Obama just order these missiles to be fired on New York and London and Paris. Cut out the middle-man. He’s hoping Islam will destroy the West for him. He continues to aid our enemies. That used to be a treasonable offence. Not any more it would seem. Why doesn’t he just do it himself and be done with it? He can always blame someone else. Or a video maybe? Let him go golfing. He carries the launch codes with him. Ah but Muslims are patient. He’s in no hurry. But his time in office is running out. He could panic. Do something big while he still can. He is very dangerous now.
ApolloSpeaks says
CUT THE GUY SOME SLACK BOB
What is “Moslem Outreach” if it’s not all things to all Moslems?
ApolloSpeaks says
CUT THE GUY SOME SLACK BOB
What is “Moslem Outreach” if it’s not being all things to all Moslems?
John C. Barile says
Funny.
Cindy Mccoy says
What the hell is wrong with government???? Funding both sides of a war when we have no money and are hurting so bad at home!!!!!! This president and his administration are a bunch of clowns. They must have thought they were going to work for the circus and found out it was for o”bum”a!!!!!!!!!!!! It is about the same thing. They are the clowns who go out and entertain the crowd while the others are sneaking behind our backs. They have made us laughing stocks of the world!!!!! Man, it is time for a shift change. We need someone with a level head and military experience!!!!! And we need to mind our own business!!!!!
onisac says
I can’t believe the ignorance of the U.S. government courts, and military included!!
For over a decade web-sights have been warning the U.S. citizens about the Ideology, commitment, motivations, and goals of Islam. Even the Islamic terrorists have said their intentions in public and in the news.
And still the United States politicians fail to get it, as they continue turning a blind eye, to the facts….
Either they are committing treason, been paid off, or they are the most ignorant folks on earth..
Serving the citizens of the United States has been gone for decades now. Thank goodness for Jihad Watch. Thanks RS, for you courage, and commitment.
Spinoneone says
“75 Hellfire missiles to Iraq.” Supposedly to Al-Maliki. I wonder how many of them will be in the hands of ISIS by the beginning of August?
duh_swami says
Allahu Akbar fighting Allahu Akbar, the object of which is bigger and better Allahu Akbar. May the best Allahu Akbar win..
.Rasool Obama is a stealth jihadist, but he is not stealthing for Shia.
It would seem that Ayatollah Putin is playing that roll, he is sending fighter jets.